Video & Audio

Josh Kun is exploring how the production of sound and music are related to contemporary global migrations, expulsions, and detainments.

Visual artist Ran Ortner is known for his realistic paintings of foaming waves and turbulent movement of opalescent sea water, motifs inspired by decades of surfing.

A former co-chairman of the American Academy in Berlin, Karl M. von der Heyden discusses his book Surviving Berlin with former American Academy president Norman Pearlstine, who then moderates a discussion with Academy alumna Kira Thurman and historian Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann.

Rice University historian Ussama Makdisi is working on a book about the history of coexistence and sectarianism in the modern Middle East.

Raven Chacon discusses his body of work, which explores the sounds of acoustic handmade instruments overdriven through electric systems, and the direct and indirect audio-feedback responses from their interactions.

Historian Amy Remensnyder, of Brown University, is working on a microhistory of the tiny Mediterranean island of Lampedusa.

Raven Chacon is a composer of chamber music, performer of experimental noise music, and installation artist.

The spring 2018 class of fellows present themselves and their projects while in residence at the Hans Arnold Center. Words of welcome by Michael P. Sternberg, president of the American Academy in Berlin, and welcoming remarks by Stephan-Andreas Casdorff, editor-in-chief of Der Tagesspiegel.

Nicholas Eberstadt discusses North Korea's reclusive regime, its supporting agents, and its recent relations with the US, Iran, and China.

A discussion between American Academy Distinguished Visitor Charles Taylor and Academy fellow Dilip Gaonkar about democracy's decline.